Creightons (LON:CRL) Reaches New 52-Week High at $32.84

Creightons Plc (LON:CRL) hit a new 52-week high during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The company traded as high as GBX 32.84 ($0.43) and last traded at GBX 32.48 ($0.43), with a volume of 944454 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at GBX 30.50 ($0.40).

Creightons Stock Performance

The stock’s 50-day moving average is GBX 26.62 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 24.49. The stock has a market cap of £22.23 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -649.60 and a beta of 0.47. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 17.77, a current ratio of 2.34 and a quick ratio of 0.91.

Creightons Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, September 11th. Investors of record on Thursday, August 8th were given a dividend of GBX 0.45 ($0.01) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 8th. This represents a yield of 1.55%. This is a positive change from Creightons’s previous dividend of $0.15. Creightons’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is -2,000.00%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, insider William McIlroy sold 10,750,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of GBX 26 ($0.34), for a total transaction of £2,795,000 ($3,692,206.08). 47.64% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Creightons Company Profile

Creightons Plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets toiletries and fragrances in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers haircare, skincare, bath and body, and wellbeing products. It offers its products under the Argan Smooth, Balance Active Formula, Bambeautiful, Body Bliss, Bronze Ambition, Creightons, Feather & Down, Frizz No More, H2O Boost, Humble Beauty, Janina, Pink Grapefruit, Pro Keratin, Pure Touch, Sunshine Blonde, The Curl Company, and T Zone brands.